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Netherlands Euthanizes 29-Y-O Mentally Ill Woman
The Christian Post ^ | 2/1/18 | Brandon Showalter

Posted on 02/12/2018 10:14:43 AM PST by Faith Presses On

The Netherlands has euthanized a 29-year-old woman who was not diagnosed with a physical disease but was suffering psychologically, an example of the growing allowances for what is being called "dignified death."

The Dutch woman, Aurelia Brouwers, died by physician assisted suicide last Friday. Dutch media reports indicate that she chose death, arguing that she had a right to a "dignified death" after living with severe psychological issues since her childhood.

"I think that after such a rotten life I am entitled to a dignified death," Brouwers told Dutch media outlet RTL. "[P]eople who have a serious illness get a chance for a worthy ending, so why is it so difficult for people who are psychologically out?"

"Every second is torture, I'm so trapped in my head, those demons are not going away, I've been so devoured by my psychiatric illnesses that I'm completely broken, and I fought against that," she said.

Approximately 9 percent of requests for euthanasia because of psychological suffering are reportedly honored in the Netherlands and it is also rare for the government to approve it for people younger than 30 but such cases are indeed happening.

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Full title: "Netherlands Euthanizes 29-Y-O Mentally Ill Woman; Bioethicists Ask 'Where Does This End?'"
1 posted on 02/12/2018 10:14:43 AM PST by Faith Presses On
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To: Faith Presses On

Some people seem to be born to murder the innocent. The crafty ones find ways to murder legally and gallantly.


2 posted on 02/12/2018 10:19:56 AM PST by SaraJohnson ( Whites must sue for racism. It's pay day.)
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To: Faith Presses On
New sign seen at the Amsterdam International Airport:

Arbeit Macht Frei


3 posted on 02/12/2018 10:20:50 AM PST by rjsimmon (The Tree of Liberty Thirsts)
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To: Faith Presses On

The Nazis won, after all.


4 posted on 02/12/2018 10:21:06 AM PST by dfwgator
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To: Faith Presses On

I guess that whole Hitler thing took a toehold there after all.


5 posted on 02/12/2018 10:21:23 AM PST by Gamecock (The greatest threat to humanity is not "out there" but "in here" in the recesses of the soul. TK)
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To: Faith Presses On

Netherlands begins the national program of neo-socialist Statism, using the systemic planning and role model of
what the country SHOULD have memory of (Holland having been a hellhole under occupation in WWII): The Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei. The NSDAP... the Leftist, socialist Nazi party, getting rid of “defectives”.


6 posted on 02/12/2018 10:21:58 AM PST by John S Mosby (SIC SEMPER TYRANNIS)
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To: Faith Presses On

Did you learn that from Hitler?


7 posted on 02/12/2018 10:23:34 AM PST by SandRat (Duty, Honor, Country.)
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To: Faith Presses On
died by physician assisted suicide last Friday

So much for, First, do no harm.

8 posted on 02/12/2018 10:25:28 AM PST by Puppage (You may disagree with what I have to say, but I shall defend to your death my right to say)
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To: Faith Presses On

Didn’t 20 million people die over an idiotic thought like this?


9 posted on 02/12/2018 10:27:06 AM PST by Vendome (I've Gotta Be Me - https://www.youtube.cwom/watch?v=wH-pk2vZG2M5)
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To: Faith Presses On

Why not turn the Anne Frank House into a store selling lamp shades made of human skin?


10 posted on 02/12/2018 10:28:16 AM PST by Vendome (I've Gotta Be Me - https://www.youtube.cwom/watch?v=wH-pk2vZG2M5)
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To: Faith Presses On

How is a Diagnosed Severely Mentally Ill Person get to make such a decision?


11 posted on 02/12/2018 10:28:32 AM PST by Kickass Conservative ( Tweet softly, but carry a big stick.)
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To: Faith Presses On

The Nazis transferred many of their early mental health facility supervisors to the death camps as supervisors.


12 posted on 02/12/2018 10:30:25 AM PST by alternatives? (Why have an army if there are no borders?)
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To: Faith Presses On

At least in Soylent Green, the people who were being euthanized were shown beautiful scenes and comforted as they died. Sad to say, the euthanization in our future will not be as nice as that — it will be much more cold and clinical.


13 posted on 02/12/2018 10:31:00 AM PST by Opinionated Blowhard ("When the people find they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic.")
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To: Faith Presses On

“If there is no God, everything is permitted.” - Fyodor Dostoevsky


14 posted on 02/12/2018 10:32:17 AM PST by loveliberty2
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To: Faith Presses On

By definition, a “mentally ill” person cannot give consent. Therefore, without any doubt whatsoever, the person was forced into euthanasia, which = murder.

It doesn’t matter anyway. In a few years GODLESS Holland will be run by m*slims who will force the Dutch to accept their violent ideology that is disguised as a religion.


15 posted on 02/12/2018 10:38:16 AM PST by I want the USA back (Cynicism may just keep you from going insane in a world that has chosen its own demise.)
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To: Faith Presses On

It was less messy than blowing her brains out or jumping from a high building.


16 posted on 02/12/2018 10:44:54 AM PST by arrogantsob (See "Chaos and Mayhem" at Amazon.com)
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To: loveliberty2

That was the belief of the founder of the Assassins.


17 posted on 02/12/2018 10:47:14 AM PST by arrogantsob (See "Chaos and Mayhem" at Amazon.com)
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To: Faith Presses On

In effect, the government of the Netherlands allowed the lynching of a mentally ill woman. A century ago, Southern states allowed the lynching of blacks by white vigilantes and mobs. “Death with dignity” is as much an excuse for murder as “the right to choose” is. and “the purity of the white race” was a century ago.


18 posted on 02/12/2018 10:47:49 AM PST by Wallace T.
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To: Opinionated Blowhard

I always pictured it more like the movie “Children of Men” where people were just sent home a kit called “Quietus” and left to take care of it themselves.
I was under the impression everyone got a kit regardless of reason.


19 posted on 02/12/2018 10:47:52 AM PST by StandMixerBetty
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To: rjsimmon

“Arbeit Macht Frei”
Its a Shame our young ones don’t know what this means.
I have explained to my Grand children they learn nothing
in the schools except weather they can pee in the girls bathroom.


20 posted on 02/12/2018 11:06:12 AM PST by carmen2017
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